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A quick house update...

Well, we are NOT in our new house, unfortunately!

And really we don't know when we will be.

We are hoping by the end of the week, since we have given our notice to be out of our place by this coming Saturday.

And I am really hoping that I have a decent amount of time to get this place cleaned.

The unknown has really thrown a kink in getting help with moving.

It looks like at the moment, Hubs and I will be doing ALL the moving on our own, that is if I can find someone to watch Mac (and he will be ok with me leaving him).

You would really think that since we are moving into a NEW house, and everyone (as in mortgage co. and lender) has known about it for more than three months, that they could have had ALL the paperwork done on time, so that we could close when we were supposed to.

Especially since Hubs would ask every couple of days if there was any other paperwork that needed to be taken care of.

They would always tell us NO, and then call us a couple of days later and say, "oh we have more paperwork". lovely!

We are very frustrated to say the least.

I am tired of tripping over boxes and stuff that I am trying to pack.

And we are trying (really hard) to see the we are blessed, and in the end all will work out.

BUT...

PLEASE PRAY THAT WE WILL CLOSE TODAY!

Mac's "candy store"!

On Labor Day we decided to take Mac to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. It is awesome. We just spent our time in the Aviation museum, we never got over to the Space building. But Mac was oh so in heaven. The second we walked in he was saying "Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa!" over and over to make sure Grandpa was seeing everything he was seeing. Mac did suprisingly well for not being in a stroller (we forgot it at home). I really look forward to taking him here again in a couple of years.

EXACTLY!!

"My mom introduced the beautiful concept of adoption in a very simple manner. There is something that is called prayer trading, and we're going to trade prayers with somebody. Somewhere out there is a girl praying for a good family for her baby. We are going to pray for a good tummy with a baby in it, and we are going to answer each others' prayers.' "

--Troy Dunn

(I can't wait to start our own "prayer trading" again!)

A riddle...

What do you get when you have a little boy who likes to chew?

Any guesses???

Things Mac ~ 20 months addition

His first bikeride

Mac has all of a sudden been talking in sentences with almost everything he says, crazy! A few that I can think of are:
~"Where'd it go?"
~"Where'd da book?"
~"I want a..." (he says that ALOT!)
~"I want to read it."
~"What are those?"
~"I want some more."
~"What are you doing?"
~"I want help."
~"It's HOT!"
~"Watch out." (He usually says this when he is playing with his cars and making them fall of things.)
~"Catch it" (when he is throwing a ball "to" you.)
~"I want all done."
~"No more monkeys jumping bed!" (from a book we read)
~"What's happening dude!" (from his letter factory video)
~" Oh no!" (Usually with both hands on his face)

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He has a memory like no other: We went to a grocery store that we had not been to in a couple of weeks, the first thing out of his mouth when we got into the store was..."I want a book...I want a choo-choo...Thomas!" Over and over he kept asking me this, because the last time we were in that store (which was a couple of weeks before this) I had bought him a Thomas the Train book. Crazy kid!

He is still into all things that GO! He recognized and says: mail truck, fire truck, police car, pick-up, car, bike, tractor (to him that is all farm equipment), big truck (semi), and papa's truck (all white pick-ups), airplane, helicopter, motorcycle, ambulance, digger, jeep.

He refuses to stay in Nursery without us. I really thought he would have an easier transition than he is having. He gets pretty clingy, and sometimes will do ok during each activity, he just has a hard time transitioning from one activity to the next.

He loves to sing, and is actually a really good singer (thanks to his birthfamily). He is also starting to sing some of the words to these songs, and it is usually the last word of each phrase.
Songs he likes to sing are: Wheels on the bus, Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam, I am a Child of God, I love to see the Temple, Itsy bitsy spider, twinkle twinkle little star.

He has been counting "one, two, three!" alot lately and knows almost all of his letter sounds.

He loves to say "night-night!" to everything when we take him to put him down for his naps. His favorite things to say night-night to are: book, truck, car, airplane, outside, daddy (picture on the wall), baby (picture of him on the wall).

He follows simple commands really well (when he wants to anyway).

He is a really good climber and can get up and down almost anything pretty well.

He tries so hard to jump but can't get his feet off the ground and it is so stinking cute.

When he gets an owie, he makes a little whiny sound and holds his hand out for me to kiss. Even if he got an owie somewhere else on his body.

I loves to look at books, and has started to pretend to read if it is a book that we read to him alot. And will get the catchy phrases from that book right.

Every time he sees a white pick-up he thinks it belongs to his Grandpa Dick.

We went to the Temple last week and when we got there I was explaining to him that the Temple is Jesus' and Heavenly Father's house. Since then every time he sees a picture of a Temple he will tell me..."Emple(temple)...sheshus(Jesus)...ha fadder(Heavenly Father)"

He is really good at folding his arms when he know we are going to say prayer and always says Amen at the correct time.

He is really into possession, like what belongs to who. He will pick up our shoes or something else and say "Daddy's" or "Mama's". And he is usually correct.

He is so polite by always saying Please and Thank you. He mostly does it on his own with out us having to say anything.

He is starting to learn what sorry means. He ran into me when he was running into the house and told me "sorry" and ran off.

He will say "ABCDLMNOP" when you ask him to say his ABCs.

He is starting to call animals by there actual names now instead of by their sounds. He just started doing the best horse sound I have ever heard, it is so right on. He also can recognize alot of animals: zebra, elephant, monkey, snake, chicken, rooster, duck, lion, tiger and all the normal ones. He also distinguishes the between the sounds of a chicken, rooster, and duck. He says the cutest "cockle-doodle-doo".

He thinks he is pretty cute when he is always saying "a big, BIG guck!" ( guck is how he says truck).

We were picking up his trucks and animals the other day. And I told him that the trucks go in one box and the animals in the other. I gave him the box with the animals and I started picking up the cars thinking he didn't really understand my directions. Well I was wrong because he started picking up the animals and then brought a car over an put it in my box and then went back to picking up the animals.

We were driving in the car and I gave him a book that I had just found that day that he hadn't looked at in a very long time. It was a book of all animals. He looked through it for a minute then closed it and said to me. "Mama, no tractors!"..."Want tractor book!" I was cracking up. This kids brain is consumed with all things that GO!

He had to get his blood drawn and it was very sad. I had to hold him down with every once of energy I had. My arms were really sore the next day. But he did great once it was over. He kept saying "owie...all done!"

He LOVES to drink water and especially out of a cup. He doesn't really like juice, and he doesn't really drink much milk anymore.

He is a really really picky eater! He favorite things: oatmeal, bananas, pancakes, french toast, bread and jam, noodles, spagetti, cucumbers, gold fish crackers.

He loves to mimick sounds and silly things the we do. He will repeat everything!
big words he can say are: ambulance, bulldozer, Our last name, helicopter, animals